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    If finite beings are absolutely dependent on God as the only true substance, finite beings have no genuine ontological standing, which contradicts creation ex nihilo's affirmation of real creaturely existence.

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    Creation ex nihilo(Presented as the root of the Torah in Falaquera's popular works)
    The view that God brought all created beings into existence from nothing, and that the world is produced and not eternal
    Finite beings(Sharpe's ontology)
    Things such as men, horses, and stones, really existing outside the mind, composed of an individual substance together with formal entities existing in and through it.
    Ontological standing(what fusions of mental states lack)
    The degree to which something is considered to truly exist or have real status in the world; whether it's the kind of thing that actually counts as real.
    absolutely dependent(as used in metaphysics)
    Completely reliant on something else for existence, with no ability to exist or sustain itself on its own.
    creaturely existence

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    (as used in theology and metaphysics)
    The real, genuine way that created things (like humans) actually exist as distinct beings, not as illusions or mere extensions of God.
    substance(Spinoza's metaphysics; criteria include (i) necessity and (ii) self-subsistence)
    The fundamental existent that is wholly necessary and self-subsistent, not depending on anything else for its existence

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